Fact · Voice and AI
383.98US dollars per month
Running the g4dn.xlarge GPU instance all month, around the clock, costs about 383.98 US dollars at its on-demand rate.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- A server that you keep running for dictation bills for every hour in the month, including the hours when nobody speaks. The 730-hour month is 365 days times 24 hours divided by 12.
- How it is calculated
- 0.526 dollars per hour x 730 hours in an average month = 383.98 dollars
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Used to calculate
- For the illustrative heavy user who dictates 42 hours a month, an always-on GPU server costs about 9.14 US dollars for each hour of dictated audio.
- A rented GPU server that costs about 383.98 US dollars a month would have to transcribe about 2,560 hours of audio a month to cost the same as AssemblyAI's Universal-2 rate of 0.15 dollars per hour.